as in insecurity
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Recent Examples of self-doubt
Per its official synopsis, the book includes tips on sharpening emotional and cognitive intelligence, as well as overcoming self-doubt and rejection.
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Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 30 Dec. 2025
There’s just enough warmth to keep hope alive, followed by silence that creates confusion and self-doubt.
—Angela Haupt, Time, 26 Dec. 2025
This self-doubt deepens after the death of his former friend and director, Peter Schneider (Jim Broadbent).
—Robert Lang, Deadline, 10 Dec. 2025
Crippling self-doubt followed by wild flashes of self-belief (a continuous cycle).
—Literary Hub, 9 Dec. 2025
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Carpenter has spent a decade untangling his insecurities since forming Medium Build in 2015.—
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We’re supposed to feel empowered, but only if that empowerment makes other people feel better about their own insecurities.—
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And that eye could see past Dorothy’s drab uniform and Cindy Brady pigtails, her tall girl’s diffidence and her sweet girl’s shyness, to the bombshell smoldering underneath.—
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There are no speakers in the songs of MJ Lenderman other than MJ Lenderman, whose diffidence and exhaustion are in all-too-perfect lockstep with the psychic frustrations of his listeners.—
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“Self-doubt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-doubt. Accessed 18 Jan. 2026.
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